A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize.(Image credit: Kena Betancur)

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.(Image credit: Fredrik Sandberg)

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.(Image credit: Tyrone Turner/WAMU for...

Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.(Image credit: Rebecca Blackwell)

Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change,...

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.(Image credit: Debbie...

The Trump administration has been hostile to federal spending on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. But there's bipartisan support for a multiuse trail that would connect Ohio and West Virginia.(Image credit:...